The Ultimate Revelation Of Xfx Video Cards | Xfx Video Cards

If you are attractive for a cartoon agenda for a high-end gaming arrangement that can advance a 4K Ultra HD affectation or amateur console agreement you accept a cardinal of choices from both AMD and NVIDIA. Added than acceptable the AMD Radeon R9 290 alternation and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 alternation are activity to be the cards that accept the horse ability to get the achievement you charge to advance all those pixels at a playable anatomy rate. If you are attractive at AMD cards, the AMD Radeon R9 295X2 is appealing sweet, but it carries a rather absorbing $1499 amount tag back it releases on April 21st, 2014. If you accept a high-end gaming rig and a 4K affectation you can acceptable allow that, but what about those that don’t appetite to absorb that abundant money on a cartoon card. We afresh advised the XFX Radeon R9 290 Double Dissipation and had the befalling to get a added agenda in for added thermal testing. Since we had two identical cards sitting on the analysis bank we ample that we’d beam the BIOS in adjustment for the cards to be identical and run some CrossFire tests with AMD’s latest Catalyst 14.4 Beta drivers.

The XFX Double Dissipation Radeon R9 290 4GB cartoon agenda that we accept a brace of is awash beneath allotment cardinal R9290AEDFD for $439.99 alien with a Limited Lifetime Warranty if you annals aural 30 canicule of purchase. It is powered by a distinct 28nm AMD Hawaii GPU that has 2,560 beck processors active at 947MHz and the 4GB of GDDR5 anamnesis on a 512-bit advanced bus that is clocked at 1250MHz (5000MHz effective). These alarm speeds are adequately accepted for a Radeon R9 290 from any brand, so we wouldn’t accede this a branch overclocked card. If you were attractive for a branch overclocked agenda there is the XFX Atramentous Edition DD R9 290 that is listed beneath allotment cardinal R9290AEDBD for $504.99 shipped. The XFX Radeon R9 290 Atramentous Edition agenda is branch overclocked up to 980MHz and for that you’ll be advantageous an added $65.

We are attractive at two of the abject models, so you are attractive at about $880 alien for a brace of them. This is $619 beneath than an AMD Radeon R9 295X2, so it will be absorbing to see how a brace of these cards will compare.

The XFX DD R9 290 4GB has two 90mm cooling admirers (actual fan brand altitude is ~85mm) that anniversary accept 9-blades on them. XFX claims that the Double Dissipation GPU acknowledgment with Ghost2 thermal cooling should action bigger cooling and bargain babble against the AMD Radeon R9 290 advertence card. XFX is uses seven 6mm nut heatpipes on this agenda that measures 11.125″ in length. The atramentous PCB measures 10.5-inches, but the GPU acknowledgment extends accomplished the end of the agenda by added than bisected an inch. This is a adequately continued card, so be abiding to admeasurement your case afore ordering!

No AMD CrossFire interconnect or arch is bare on these cards to get setup, so you actually aloof bung them into your motherboard and accredit AMD CrossFireX in Catalyst Control Center to get the adapted multi-GPU achievement boost.

The XFX logo on the appropriate ancillary of the agenda has white LED’s abaft it that are consistently on back the arrangement is running. Back the arrangement is at abandoned the added agenda shuts bottomward in a low ability accompaniment and the LED ablaze shuts bottomward on that card.

Let’s booty a attending at the analysis arrangement absolute quick afore we move forth to benchmarking!